Sunday, August 17, 2008
The saga unfolds
We ended at 9 and went to eat breakfast. I insisted on a takeaway and chiong-ed back to my pgp room. I reached at 10 plus and barely had time to eat and source for the stuff. So, as predicted, i was late for the circle painting stuff, which was okay, i guess. After that, i left earlier than others (together with the pgp-people). And on the journey back on the bus, there was a young couple infront of us. The guy had a GNC bag. Soon, he took out and revealed the 2008 Shears Bridge Run shirt. My eyes widened as i realised that i only had 3 days to collect the goodie bag from safra toa payoh! And so, as soon as i touched my room, i was back on my feet with my SBR confirmation receipt. Along the way at Toa Payoh mrt, i came across this 1.95 shop and grabbed some supplied for my room. I was rushing back for dinner.Desperately. Yes. I realised i missed my lunch for the day. But too bad, both pgp canteens were closed.
I took the opportunity to step into the K-Gourmet cafe and took a look at the menu. I ordered spagetti and got a waffle at supersnacks.
Today was packed too. I signed up for Run Nus and Windsurfing.
The run begins at 910 and i'm supposed to be at the windsurfing center (the other side of the island) at 930. woo~ I decided not to go for the run.
Nevertheless, today, i spent too long to find out how to get to the water venture centre that i left pgp late, at 830. I took bus 30 to harbourfront mrt, took mrt to dhoby ghaut station and took bus 36 from there. I missed the busstop at ecp and ended up at CIAS, near Changi Airport. Luckily, i managed to get a taxi :)
The driver drove.. and drove.. till he came to a point in ECP, when he pointed to the building on his left and said "that one, right?" and pulled over to the EXPRESSWAY's road shoulder. He asked me to cross into the building myself, since it may take a longer journey to get a exit out of ecp. Once i got out, and he left, i realised that it was pretty uncrossable. There a barrier, a drain and another barrier. The barriers were managable for me, but the wide drain with water flowing in it, was not. So,i ended up walking for about 2 km, on the road shoulder of ECP, with vehicles whizzing past me, till i found this pipe across the drain.After managing to do a good balancing act on the pipe, i managed to get to the building and realised that i had to walk further :( Well, finally, i ended up being an hour late and missed half of the theory lesson, which was not too bad, since my instructor was one who believes in his students 'trying it out for themselves'. I like that ideology too!
yup.. that's all for the main events. haha, it's just usual stuff from then on. And after coming back, i decided to check out my horoscope for today. Here:
Your ability to wiggle your way into and out of various situations is
tested today and while it's harder than usual, it's a fair bet that you end up
doing quite well. You end the day exhausted, though!
Friday, August 8, 2008
how i spent 8/8/8
At about 7, i prepared for another celebration of the olympics: I completed a run from pgp to Bukit Timah Nature Reserve. This time, the run was much better. Altogether, it is 2 km longer than the vivo run, but i managed to finish it in 1h53mins (for ~16km). Quite a bad timing, but considering that i ran abt 14km in the morning, it's not too bad, i guess... alrights.. Pradeep STILL hasn't come back from his US trip. gosh.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
moved into pgp!
hi ppl!
I've got two things to blog about right now:
1. I've moved into pgp!!. YaY! Life's gonna be great now, with all the crazy midnight runs. Someday, i'll run to the bukit timah nature reserve, climb that thing and come back...It's quite reachble, you know? hmm.. about my room. Well, level 3. good thing i'm not facing Mr Sun :) I'm facing a bunch of trees and a playground. Generally, I find it cooler than my previous room back down in basement 2. It a lot more airy too, if i decide to sacrifice some of my privacy by opening my door. the fan is working great, although i keep thinking that it would fall down anytime, looking at the way it vibrates when working at the top speed. I've pretty much set up everything and ready to roll! One last thing. I'm in the same cluster as Hung. Well, erm.. It's good to have someone you know to talk to now and then =)
2. I just installed and tried opera in my home computer, and it's just gorgeous. Beautiful thing. For me, i've been comfortable with IE7 and safari and occationally use firefox. But I think Opera has pretty much all that i want in a browser =) I'll get it into my laptop when i get back ! I love the mouse gestures!
Well, i've to go zzz now. Got tekan session tmr afternoon by my prof. Have to rest my mind!